Moonlit Beach, Two Palm Trees

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Oil painting of a beachfront landscape with palm trees. There is a sandy beach in the foreground of the painting (a). A grove with two palm trees is on the right. The water is shown between the beach and the far green shoreline. The moon lightens the sky from just out of the frame. The work is signed at the bottom left. The wooden frame (b) is made from repurposed construction materials. Both sides of the frame are painted brown. There is a small piece of clear tape on the top of the frame. The board is secured to the frame with small nails under masking tape. A metal wire anchored with a screw eye on each side is strung across the upper back.

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